So my wife and I go to this Chinese restaurant for our annual Christmas dinner with friends (and without kids).  As we are preparing to leave, the wait staff, who had been so attentive to us throughout dinner bids us farewell, by exclaiming ‘Happy Holidays?’ I don’t know about you but my gut reaction to such a generic greeting I am sure does not attain the intended purpose of the ‘cheer giver’.  I think I must actually see such neutering of the Christmas season as an affront to my Christianity… almost as if some sort of crime had been committed against me.  And then, in that moment, the Holy Spirit prompted me to realize that the ‘crime’ that had been committed was not the omission of Christ from this gal’s parting comments to me.  The travesty was likely the omission of Christ from her life–not just her comment.  In other words, perhaps my first reaction should not be, how does it make me feel when someone fails to include Christ in their salutation during the Christmas holidays! Rather, what does this mean for their soul… for their salvation.This Christmas season we are reminded that God gave His Son. We, as Christians, have also been given the profound responsibility and privilege of carrying His message to a lost world. If Christ has been left out of the holiday pomp and ceremony that we see going on around us… what can we do to re-introduce Christ to those who desperately need him?